Original Photography And Excellent Photography Courses and Classes
Do you find photography interesting? If ya do then you’re in the right place. I’m Sam D’Amico and this is my website. I’m a professional photographer and professional photography teacher.
While you’re here, take some time, look around and make some comments.
In short, this website is about selling photographs as prints, licensing rights managed stock photography and photography classes.
Specifically, as a professional photographer, I sell prints of my work and license my photographs as rights managed stock photography. In addition, as a professional photography teacher, I post information about my photography classes and I write blog posts based on conversations that happen during my photography classes.
I’m not sure how you wound up here but I’m glad that you’re here.
Study And Practice Photography With Sam
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Upcoming Group Photography Classes In Washington DC
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Being A Photographer-An Online Discussion And Learning Platform For Photographers
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Purchase A Photograph As Wall Decor
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License The Use Of A Photograph For Commercial Or Editorial Use
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See Sam’s Photographs
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Most of us use our white balance settings in the automatic (AWB) setting. The idea is that if white looks white, then everything else is “color correct”. Is “color correct” always what we want? What if our photograph wasn’t “color correct”? Try taking your white balance setting off of AWB and make the same picture
What we charge for our photography depends on us, not on what other photographers are charging. It’s essential to figure our cost of doing business/what we need to earn a living. We charge our clients for the following: Time. We need to charge our clients for the time it takes to complete the work. Expenses.
As Professionals, How Do We Know What To Charge For Our Photography? Read More »
“…an eight-member jury decided in favor of Grumpy Cat Ltd. in a suit against Grenade Beverage, the maker of Grumpy Cat Grumppuccino.”… https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2018/01/25/580588088/grumpy-cat-awarded-710-000-in-copyright-infringement-suit
Copyrights and Copywrongs – 0129-2018 – Grumpy Cat Read More »
Drawing Inspiration – Lee Friedlander Drawing Inspiration is a series of posts dedicated to photographers who have inspired me. If possible, I’ve included a quote and a link to their work.
Drawing Inspiration – Lee Friedlander Read More »
Is EVERYTHING we do as photographers in terms of our studies and practice to create a photograph. Each thing that we do can be considered an ELEMENT of composition. How we each study and practice is as varied as each of us as photographers. Considering the variety of photographers and their studies and practice, the
Composition In Photography… Read More »
Money. The pros enjoy their photography practice so much that they have decide to make photography a vocation. The amateurs, while enjoying their photography practice as much as pros do, have decided to make photography an avocation. Learn About The Business Of Photography
What Separates The Pros From The Amateurs? Read More »
Lightning, provides light. We notice lightning more at night than we do during the day. Since lightning is a light source that provides light very briefly, it illuminates what is within the distance/range of the lightning for a split second and then, when the flash of lightning is gone, what we saw with the addition
It’s Like Having Portable Lightning. Read More »
We are already doing the VERY basics. When we see something that creates an impulse to make a photograph and we then take out a camera to make the photograph, we are practicing the VERY basics of photography. We may not be as thoughtfully involved in the creation of the picture as photographers who have
No need to learn the VERY Basics Of Photography Read More »
I’m surprised that many photographers I meet don’t consider themselves to be photographers. Many photographers seem to think that being a photographer is based on a certain level of skill or type of camera used. It ain’t. If we see something and get an impulse to make a picture of what we’re seeing and then
Are We Photographers? Read More »
Commodities are bid on in the stock market and the price is driven by supply and demand. Rarities are bid on in auction houses and the price is driven by the highest bidder. When our work looks like the work of other photographers our work becomes a commodity. When our work reflects the way that we
Commodity Or Rarity? Read More »
